OH, and 1 thing. If you want an easy language with the least amount of work, choose french. (or german, but I'm not taking that so I'm not sure.) Spanish has rediculous amounts of irregular verbs to conjugate, 2 forms of the word "for", 2 ways to say things in the future tense, 2 ways to say things that already happened (both are used in different situations), and probably more random things I haven't learned yet.
From what my friend says, French has little to no irregulars, only 1 form of for, and everything is overall a lot easier. (For the record, I'm taking French 1 next year. Not sure if that counts as "taking it already")